Quote of the Day: VP is "A Barnacle" on the Leg. Branch
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@LandOfTheBrave01 you ever see the back of a 20$ bill on weed?
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Attached to the constitution . . . like a parasite. Yes, that describes Cheney well. Addington, for that matter.
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"plum book"
remember?
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No, according to legal precedent. He was not quoting himself, he was quoting a legal document from DOJ form March of 1961.
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"He's not fish nor fowl" - LOL
3 years ago 3
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Well, yeah :P. But the point is to be explicit. That's the best way to get around loopholes IMO. (given you can't have everyone just be reasonable and uncorrupt)
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Since when did the Constitution mean anything to these people? Why don't we say this, as long as they're stripping the Bill of Rights, we'll reciprocally strip the parts of the Constitution endowing the Executive with any power.
3 years ago 2
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It's really not this complicated. The constitution starts with Article 1 defining the legislative branch. Section 1 defines both houses, Section 2 defines the house and Section 3 defines the senate. The first time Vice President is mentioned is right there in section 3.
Obviously, this legal dance is all about protecting Addington's Job and VP Dick Cheney.
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I really don't get this legal dance. Neither?
Sec 1 says "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." and then in sec 3, the Vice President is defined to be part of the Senate: "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided"
He's part of the legislative branch and cannot claim Executive Privilege
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LandOfTheBrave01 3 years ago 8
ADDINGTON: Sir, perhaps the best that can be said is that the vice president belongs neither to the executive nor to the legislative branch, but is attached by the constitution to the latter.
So according to Addington, the Vice President is his own branch of government, or part of the Executive and the Legislative, but not, well sort of. This hack certainly can do the legal dance.
bogon5dot 3 years ago 5